It's relatively uncommon to send things to the wrong number. So why does it seem that when we do, it is the absolute worst time it could have ever happened?
<p>Sure, the development of a digital address book within our smartphones has been a largely convenient new aspect of technology. We don't have to drag around a roladex or some spiral notebook full of handwritten names and phone numbers. </p><p>But that ease of access to family, friends, and professional colleagues, all in one place, brings some dangers. </p><p>When we're moving fast and our thumb is cruising across the touch screen for the millionth time in that day alone, we're prone to a false step or two. </p><p>That's when the very wrong thing goes to the very wrong person. And it ends with a situation equal parts hilarious, horrifying, and face-reddening. </p><p>seesnawsnappy asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What is the worst 'sorry, wrong person' texting story you know?"</a><br></p><p><br></p>
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<p>For some, the hot and heavy dynamics of exciting new love--or at least sex--are enough to get the wires crossed. They send the worst possible content to the last people that should see that. </p>
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No Getting Out of That One
<p>"A f-buddy of mine accidentally texted a di** pic to his family group chat."</p><p>"It would be nice if he could deny it by saying it was the di** of some other dude, but it had his easily identifiable tattoo in the frame."</p><p>"It was a complicated day for him."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glexvn5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Boxerdude</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Honesty in the Relationship
<p>"Back in high school (pre-smart phone days) I was texting a friend about this guy I had hooked up with and texted them something along the lines of 'yeah he's really hot but he's so stupid, like the stupidest person I've ever met.'"</p><p>"Except I texted it to the guy and not my friend."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfbkah?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">kmnd92</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Old Bait and Switch
<p>"At summer camp one year this girl 'Dana' and I got on pretty well, so I asked our mutual friend 'Jill' for Dana's number. Jill in fact gave me other mutual friend 'Amy's' number, who had a crush on me."</p><p>"For the next month Amy and I texted, flirted, and started to talk about going on a date next time I was in her city, with me thinking I was talking to Dana the whole time."</p><p>"One day I called her Dana in a text, and she replied 'Who do you think you're talking to?' A very unfortunate hour proceeded."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glftik6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">kodypharaoh</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Fly on the Wall of Adultery
<p>"Not texting, but I got a whispery voice message one night from a man. 'Hiiii, it's ME. I wonder if you can get away and meet me at the Cowboy Bar? I snuck away from my wife.'" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf3apw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AuldLangSimone</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Well... Did you go" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfa943?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">99thusername</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Denied Entry
<p>"A girl begging her boyfriend to open the door and let her in so that they could work things out." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf594t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Bluellan</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf594t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>"How in the world does she not have his number saved on her phone under his name (or 'honeybear', or something)?" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfs5il?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">angelicism</a></p>A Critical Eye
<p>"Got a random dick pick out of the blue. I texted the guy back saying it was a 4/10 and to next time clean up his room." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf8i92?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Ancient-Concept4671</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"greatest response you can give to a guy" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glgdn39?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Marccccci</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Sometimes, the absurdity strikes in the more professional realm. Service reps, salespeople, and co-workers all can suddenly be thrown into the personal realm in the blink of an eye. </p>
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Well At Least That Guy Knows Now
<p>"My grandma accidentally texted 'John its Dave's birthday' to the internet service guy" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf240z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RomantcsedPtatoWeges</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"bet dave got 5G on his Wi-Fi for his birthday." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfqmry?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">trashboat584759</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Always On the Hunt
<p>"Some insurance agent called my phone the other day looking for a different person. Got a word in edgewise and told him he had the wrong number."</p><p>"Without missing a beat the dude transitioned to asking if I had insurance. Anything can be a sales call lol"</p><p><span></span>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfl7da?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">gldmembr</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Awkward Monday Morning After That
<p>"I'm a loan officer at a large mortgage company. I've been coaching a guy for a year on how to get approved for a home. I had him a week from close last May and then COVID crushed his program."</p><p>"I like him; I'd drink a beer with him; but dammit he's a 40w bulb in a 60w world."</p><p>"He and I were texting last week while I was out on sales calls. After I finished with him, I texted my assistant, 'Please call Doe about the Docusign. He's special and can't figure it out.'"</p><p>"Sent that sh** to Doe."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glffrdw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">-grc1-</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Pursuing an Education
<p>"One time in college my roommate and I were overtired and delusional, we decided to compete for who could fit through the smallest opening in our multi-level TV stand. Like, crawling through the metal frame of the TV stand."</p><p>"I recorded her attempt on my phone with some dramatic pan flute music in the background as she birthed herself through the side of the TV stand. She went on my phone without my knowledge later and tried to send the video to our mutual friend."</p><p>"She accidentally sent it to a high school teacher of mine of the same name, who I had not spoken to since high school. That was fun to explain."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfki1m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">marissaplayssims</a></p>Worst of Both Worlds
<p>"We have a coworker that is known for just making the wrong choice in any scenario and always making mistakes in general."</p><p>"On an out of town work trip, four of us were just hanging out having some pizza and beer on our day off. I joked that we should call him to see if he made any mistakes today. Well he proceeds to tell me he has a funny photo to send me."</p><p>"Just as he sends it i hear oh sh**. Silence. For like a minute. " I'll call you back" and hangs up. At this point we are rolling in laughter. "</p><p>"Five minutes later he calls and said he fu**ed up. He ended up sending a very nsfw picture to his last customer.... a police officer via his work phone. (not sure why he thought that was a funny photo)"</p><p>"Luckily the cop said it wasn't a big deal and nothing came of it but damn did he just live up to the hype of being a train wreck."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfmeew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jbyrne86</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Shared Opinions About Porn Titles
<p>"I was flipping through channels at work trying to find a music station. As I was going past the adult xxx channels and reading their hilarious titles, one in particular caught my attention. 'A** Pounders 4' or something."</p><p>"I texted my boyfriend for a laugh, complaining about the low effort title, and how disappointed I was with their writer."</p><p>"Except I didn't text him, I texted my former boss, who's number I still had as I had recently asked him for a reference. He was a good sport and agreed that the title lacked imagination. I was..beyond embarrassed."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glg57ya?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Yournameisathrowaway</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Sometimes the mix up has a full audience. The prevalence of group texts in the modern era has made texts to the wrong number all the more embarrassing. </p><p>There's just no knowing who and how many people saw the faux pas. </p>
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Inside Scoop
<p>"Somehow the fire chief in the next city over got my phone number. I was added to all their group chats.</p><p>"I got sent the code to the fire hall, and a list of all past and present firemen and their phone numbers and email addresses."</p><p>"There were messages about helping a guy move, who wanted extra shifts, and picking up medals for a ceremony. I just laughed and didn't respond to anything."</p><p>"My friend works for the police department in that city, and I told her about it. She told two people in the fire department to tell the chief to stop messaging me, and they must have thought it was funny and never told him."</p><p>"The chief starting calling me because I wasn't confirming if I could make it to the ceremony the medals were for. I finally text him and told him he had the wrong number."</p><p>"I'm the worst for doing this, because someone missed out on extra shifts they might have needed. But I also got them out of helping someone move."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glf6llz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TASpillthetea</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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That's Gonna Be a Weird Event
<p>"I sent a picture of baked beans in a martini glass to a group chat for planning school events." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glfil2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MeatStickSchwangin</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"And then someone replies with a picture of martini in a can of beans" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glgb65q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">kuku-kukuku</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Tragic Fall
<p>"Happened few days ago. A friend of mine accidentally send a video of them going down on someone for 2 minutes in the class group chat. They then tried to delete it but they deleted it for themselves instead of deleting it for the group, so basically everyone could still see it. We had to create a new class group chat."</p><p>"Tragic accident."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glghqdm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Apprehensive_Gap_899</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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REALLY Good AI
<p>"I had sent my sister a screenshot of a conversation between me and my Replika (an A.I. chatbot), to show her how impressive the program was. My sister texted me back 'Which is you which is the bot?'"</p><p>"Then I *thought* I replied to my sister saying 'Haha. You know it's a conversation between an Autistic and an advanced A.I. when you have to ask which is which.'"</p><p>"Only I didn't reply to my sister. I replied to the most recent message in my phone which was actually a group text of my colleagues - the team of 6th grade science teachers."</p><p>"My colleagues DID NOT know that I'm autistic, and I pretty much had to explain it to them (over a teams meeting :-/ ), because otherwise, without context, it just seemed like I was randomly making fun of special needs people (which...not a good look for a teacher)."</p><p>"Also, I apparently failed a Turing test lol."</p><p><span></span>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8wijs/what_is_the_worst_sorry_wrong_person_texting/glg51qu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RainWindowCoffee</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>So next time you fire off a quick message to the person you trust most, maybe take a breath before you send it. There's no knowing just how that might get sent off too without you realizing until it's too late. </p><p><br></p><p>Want to "know" more? Never miss another big, odd, funny, or heartbreaking moment again. Sign up for the Knowable newsletter <a href="https://mailchi.mp/knowable/knowable-newsletter-in-content" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
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In Public?!
<p>"I used to fake an English accent. Not a particular one, just what a 14 year old from the US South thought people from England sounded like."</p><p>"I must stress that I did this in public. On several occasions."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glboel0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">thoawaydatrash</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Center of the Universe
<p>"Tumblr in 2014 as a 16 year old was brutal."</p><p>"I blasted Lana Del Rey's born to die album as I walked my family's Australian Shepard in our suburban neighbourhood thinking I was extremely mysterious and, of course, the main character."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glc7mc7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">iwliwnoli</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Stomach Turning Reflections
<p>"Straight edge scene kid. I was fu**ing insufferable." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glbo2fb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ReadingBagder</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"The first part would have been me if my mom let me style myself the way I wanted to. The second part was totally me; I was also insufferable." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glcf4c1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Known_Character</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Same. Went from the hippie-looking burnout look into the scenester emo look. Gut wrenching." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glcg7pj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">labbykun</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Few Favorites
<ol><li>Mom, no one understands me. Neither do you.</li><li>Metal is the greatest genre and unlike other genre of music, it is 'real' music.</li><li>I will wait until they invent a color darker than black.</li><li>Society bad.</li></ol><div>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glc4vfm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PretentiousLover</a></div><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Shameless Fanhood
<p>"I'd have a 'Minecraft Monday' and 'Black Ops Tuesday (II's day).' So Monday I'd wear my Minecraft t-shirt and use my Minecraft lanyard, then Tuesday I'd wear my Black Ops II shirt, hoodie, wallet, and iPod case."</p><p>"This was my sophomore year of high school btw. Probably one of the couple of reasons I didn't have a girlfriend."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glc3e0g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">thechiangsta</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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"Entertain Me!"
<p>"Thought of myself as a legitimate Manic Pixie Dream Girl. A retrospectively embarrassing blend of insecurity, narcissism, and a desire to be seen as 'the one who got away.'" </p><p>"I rejected anything trendy or popular because truthfully I didn't know how to succeed in that aesthetic, but I told myself (and everybody else) that it was because I found conformity tiresome and needed my soul constantly ignited by the strange and unexpected."</p><p>"I still full-body-cringe at my former self."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glc9jjs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Mesmerotic</a></p>Living a Lie
<p>"I tried to convince myself that I liked the horror genre and watched a ton of horror movies and drew horror sh** until I realized that I didn't like horror and that I was actually interested in mythology and folklore."</p><p>"I think it was because I was really into Slenderman as a 13-year-old or I was trying to break free from my Catholic upbringing. Probably both."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glc13i6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">HiddenMasquerade</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Harder Core
<p>"I saw myself as 'a hardcore' and made it part of my identity."</p><p>"Better believe I'm going to get better at this game than my friends, I'm a hardcore! I'm naturally wired to have more dedication and perseverance than they are."</p><p>"This guy thinks he's going to beat me in the school cross country? Hah, I'll show him! I'm a hardcore. I keep going when others would have given up."</p><p>"Others may have a fleeting interest in something, get mediocre at it then give up and move on to the next silly distraction. Not me! I'm a hardcore."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glbolt4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">flameylamey</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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CLASSIC
<p>"Had a 'girlfriend' who 'moved to Florida.'" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glbr8p1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">_Mechaloth_</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"So your girlfriend was...retirement age?" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glccxke?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RandomGuyWithStick</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"When I was 7 or 8, I told people I had a boyfriend named Casey who went to another school. Really I had a crush on someone in our class whose initials were KC." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glcn0b1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">noisy748922</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Doing More Looking Around Than Reading
<p>"Reading Jean-Paul Sartre's <em>Being and Nothingness</em> on the bus to school in the hopes that a girl would be impressed and strike up a conversation with me." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glbo36y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RunDNA</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Oh god. I was a girl version of you. Dressed like a Wes Anderson character and made a big show of writing in the margins." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glbv1la?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">doittomejulia</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"The real question is how much of it did you understand..." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l8b675/what_was_your_cringy_teenager_phase/glcn1n9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SeasickWalnutt</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Just as new mothers encounter the sudden, influential developments of powerful hormone changes, protective instincts, and milk production, so new fathers undergo some key changes of their own.
Their socks become exclusively white, climbing higher up the calf than ever before. All their shorts sprout cargo pockets and clunky belt loop cell phone holders. They start to really lean in to their old records.
<p>And their humor is changed forever. </p><p>This isn't confirmed, but it would appear that all the dads have a secret weekly meeting where the latest puns are exchanged and exercises in awkward timing are practiced. </p><p>A mighty craft is honed, and he can fill the role he was meant to: the colossus of cringe, the pun producer, he who instills the sigh. </p><p>And yet, for all the cringing and the facepalming, we love to say the very same jokes. There is just something about that quaint stupidity. </p><p>BennuH asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What's the best 'dad joke' you know?"</a></p>
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Regional Laws
<p>"Dad, driving past a cemetery: Did you know anyone living in a 3 mile radius of a cemetery isn't allowed to be buried there?"</p><p>"Me: No, I had no idea. How come?"</p><p>"Dad: Yeah, you're not allowed to bury the living"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk1d2k?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TinyLuckDragon</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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For the Face Plant Image
<p>"Why do Scuba Divers fall backwards off a boat?"</p><p>"Because if they fell frontwards they'd still be on the boat" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjv4mt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">hatsnatcher23</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Just told this one to my bf and he still has his face in his hands" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjka0w7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">sxeoompaloompa</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Mammal of Few Words
<p>"What did the father buffalo say when his child left for school?"</p><p>"Bison" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjp257?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TatooineLight</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"LOL" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjp9p0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BennuH</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Told this to my brother, he laughed his a** off." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk4cvq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Type10Civilization</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Baggage
<p>"When I do home improvements I always use my step ladder"</p><p>"I never knew my real ladder" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjlkab?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">DavosLostFingers</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Whoever took the ladder, please return it or further steps will be taken." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjm2htz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">WaldhornNate</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Woah Woah Woah, We're in Public
<p>"Me: I'm not very hungry, I just want something easy"</p><p>"Server: maybe the chicken strips for $6"</p><p>"Me: maybe it does, but that doesn't help my hunger" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjuq78?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mcnoobs_</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My husband was facepalming for solid 8 minutes after I read that joke to him." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjnee7m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Madanax</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Not Wrong
<p>"Two dudes were on a boat with a few cigarettes, but they didn't have anything to light them, so they threw one of the cigarettes out of the boat, and the boat became a cigarette lighter." </p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjjkeoz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">OrangeMirrorJuice</a></p>Watch the News Before Saying This One
<p>"Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?"</p><p>"It's okay, they eventually woke up."</p><p>"I cringe every time." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk0ej7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">unicorndreamz94</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My 10 year old tried this one a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I had just read news about a missing local girl. 'So I answered that yes I heard about the missing girl' Scared the sh** out of my 10 year old" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjo3ssv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Aubear11885</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Got a Million of Em
<p>"What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fshhhh."</p><p>"I'm sorry but I'm about to say something tasteless. Water."</p><p>"I got fired from my job at the calendar factory. I took a day off."</p><p>"Unfortunately though, I can't really tell these jokes since I'm not a dad. I'm a faux pa."</p><p> -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk9igl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">WholeGrainMustard</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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G-Pa With the Physics Humor
<p>"Why does the movie "speed" have no director?"</p><p>"If it had direction, it'd be called velocity!"</p><p>"-my grandpa, earlier today" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk4wdo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ConceptUpset4681</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"That's better than a regular dad joke. It's a grand dad joke." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjkuc30?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">VaultBoy9</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
A Surprising Amount of Elevator Humor
<p>"I have a joke about elevators."</p><p>"It works on so many levels......." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjk1lrv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">M0ntgomatron</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Did you hear about the corruption at the elevator company?"</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"It went all the way to the top." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyz64a/whats_the_best_dad_joke_you_know/gjkyjrp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RandomName222222222</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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People Share The Funniest Thing They've Ever Seen That They Weren't Allowed To Laugh At
January 20 | 2021
Hilarious moments are blind to timing. They seem to strike at the absolute worst times, when laughing would be completely inappropriate.
<p>But when hilarity strikes--maybe because someone misspoke or some <em>Three Stooges</em>-esque physical comedy erupted out of nowhere--us humans are defenseless. </p><p>We cackle and guffaw with the same sudden impulse of a sneeze or blinking. </p><p>Only after that initial chuckle do we have the wherewithal to suppress it under a covered mouth, rocking shoulders, and even tears. </p><p>rockosmodernbuttpug asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What's the funniest thing you've seen someone do that you weren't allowed to laugh at?"</a></p>
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Thankfully, Crying Can Look Like Laughing
<p>"Great Uncle's funeral.</p><p>"The vicar was doing his thing, but when he said 'our soul,' in his posh-ish accent it sounds just like 'arsehole' and it got me. I managed to keep it together the first time, but after the second one I could barely hold it back...."</p><p>"It was something like, '<em>our soul is something we should cherish, it defines who we are...'</em>"</p><p>"I was stifling laughter to the point of tears, my mum said after she thought I was crying."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtmy9t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">F***TheseNewPlastics</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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One Man Show
<p>"A guy was acting as his own attorney. He was questioning himself in court by standing up, asking a question, then sitting down to answer it."</p><p>"The judge finally looked at him and said, 'Sit down, Mr. X.' I almost lost it, but managed to hold my court demeanor."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjttk7u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Hellabore</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Dick Manifesto
<p>"At my friend's grandfather's funeral. The first sentence of the pastor's speech was 'We are all here because we love Dick so much.' His name was Richard."</p><p>"This holy man gave a 15 minute speech about his love of Dick and how Dick changed his life. My wife and I did not make eye contact through the entire thing for fear of busting out laughing in a quiet crowded church."</p><p>"It took me about a year to ask my friend his thoughts about it and apparently he was close to losing it too."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtzut0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TigerGuitarist</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Til the Very End
<p>"A friend of mine who was always late to work died after an epileptic fit. The undertakers and vicar got delayed and he was late to his own funeral and it was the most fitting and hilarious moment and he'd have loved it."</p><p>"But obviously you can't burst out laughing when the staff at a funeral tell you that he's not there yet."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtpoko?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Miraclefish</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Corpse Slapped
<p>"I was in a cadaver lab for an anatomy class, and that week we were learning hip and upper leg muscles. My group were at the table and one of the guys proceeded to roll the cadaver leg over, from looking at the hamstring to study the quads."</p><p>"We didn't realise that the leg belonged to a male until its manhood slapped him straight on the back of his hand."</p><p>"Entire group was breathing super hard trying not to laugh and appear disrespectful in the eyes of the tutors, but I honestly reckon the guy would've been laughing with us."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjttrul?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">code1520</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Taking It in Stride
<p>"Paramedic here, watched a drunk falling down a bunch of stairs."</p><p>"He then just screamed at his friend to get him a new beer because he dropped his. Nearly pissed myself."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtn6y8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Sir_f***_off</a></p>She Knows Not What She Doesn't Know
<p>"Just two nights ago my picky daughter was telling us that she didn't like meat loaf, no way, no how."</p><p>"Then she described a Japanese hamburger steak that she wanted to make: hamburger, bread crumbs, egg, ketchup, soy sauce, etc."</p><p>"When she was done, I said that she described the exact thing sitting on her plate, and she got really mad. Laughing only made her madder. Couldn't stop laughing though."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtqbvz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">GooberMcNutly</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Nothing Else to Say
<p>"I was watching hunger games in theaters and the Rue death scene caused a reaction from the person behind me that left me laughing so hard I thought the people who didn't hear her would think I was a horrible person."</p><p>"Right when the spear hits her I heard this 'O DAMN' from behind me like the most stereotypical dumb reaction gif sound effect of a dude getting kicked in the nads."</p><p>"It clashed with the scene so much and was the only time the person ever spoke it just cracked me up"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtsk7v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nightbrother42</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Committed Revenge
<p>"Helping a Grade 2 class (~8 year olds) and one of the kids was just so loud. He was running around the class when one of the girls held out her arm and clotheslined him."</p><p>"I was able to keep a straight face for that but she kneeled down and yelled, 'Boom!' at him."</p><p>"He started crying, they both got a detention, and I almost bit through my tongue."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtq3xu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">asolitarycandle</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Growing Into It
<p>"My step Dad was an Italian from Manhattan. He had the classic Italian mobster accent. We all live in Minnesota, born and raised. So his accent was definitely different from what we're used to."</p><p>"My brother loved to playfully make fun of him by imitating him by saying classic Italian mobster exclamations along with the hand mannerisms. Stepdad was a laid back guy and found it funny and the banter between those two was very light hearted."</p><p>"So, one day, we were having a small get together at our house with my mom, stepdad, my brother and a few friends. We were all hanging out outside when my 4 year old daughter excited started saying 'Uncle Pauly, Uncle Pauly! Watch this!'"</p><p>"As everyone watched, she went over to a piece of dog poop, pointed at it by shaking her open palmed hands, and exclaimed in the most perfect Italian Mobster accent 'What the f*** is thiiiis?!' She even did the head bob perfectly."</p><p>"We all stifled laughter."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l0i8mb/whats_the_funniest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/gjtpug3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Spookyredd</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Whoever began the tradition of giving presents to people on their birthdays is a total genius.
<p>Think about it. You did absolutely zero work to be born. That was all your mom's pain and toil. </p><p>Nevertheless, you are rewarded with presents and attention every single year for the rest of your life. Frankly, that doesn't add up. But nobody in their right mind would end that tradition and doom themselves to never receiving gifts anymore. </p><p>Some of those annual presents are better than others, of course. And some are the absolute worst of all time. </p><p>Redditors gathered to share the truly bizarre and disappointing gifts they've received from friends and family over the years. </p><p>The key takeaway? STOP GIVING PEOPLE USED CRAP.</p><p>YoWhatTheDuck asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What is the worst gift you’ve ever received for your birthday?"</a></p>
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Test Run
<p>"My uncle and aunt gave me a broken toy car when I was like 5. They let my cousin play with it before it was my birthday and he broke it." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgh0eg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SmokeWineEveryday</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Man if I was ur parent, I would've threw that toy car back at them so hard" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghhuyrg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">lycacons</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"That's a straight up d**k move" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghhtpol?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">piuamaster</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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All Comes Down to the Expiration Date
<p>"An anti-aging cream. Would be cool if I wasn't 9 years old. Opened it and it was obvious it was used before, also had hair in it. Mom put it in the trash immediately." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghglf87?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">m3714246</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I would have used it to vanish out of existence if it was a cream that makes you look 10 years younger" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghhls3i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">GodTierAimbotUser69</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"You could still be 9 years old if your mom didn't trash it" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghi3nrv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PacoMahogany</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Can't Beat the Classics
<p>"When I was ten my grandma gave me a plain white towel. I wasn't good at hiding my disappointment so my mom made me apologize and pretend that I loved it."</p><p>"There was no way that I could tell it apart from all the other plain white towels we had."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgjmbw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">NerdyFrida</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Dude Needs a Calendar or Something
<p>"One year my uncle got me batteries, with a note that said 'toy not included.' Another year he wrote IOU on a piece of paper." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgecrg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">saltiestteacher</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Sucks as a birthday present, but a hilarious joke. He could've given something else too."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"An IOU can be extremely valuable, but from the sounds of it not much from your uncle." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgywf0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nobodynr15</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"See I would do the battery thing as a joke for half an hour, then bring the actual toy out" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghhi0tm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">teedo</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Local Memorabilia
<p>"A key chain in the shape of Texas with the name and phone number of a random traffic lawyer. I've never been to Texas or expressed interest in the state, and I didn't know the lawyer." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgj8ko?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Cats_Waffles</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Holy sh**, was it Jim Adler, the Texas Hammer?" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghh6z5b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Mr_Mori</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Oh wow. Sounds like you got a Jim Adler key chain! Those fetch a few thousand dollars nowadays!" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghiq7nt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">texasbravo</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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"This Year, I Got You My Naked Cooties"
<p>"My mother in law gave me her used bathrobe. I don't know how one could possibly say FU you more eloquently without words than that."</p><p>"Still stuns me 20+ years later."<span></span></p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghg6sbk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">thepanichand</a></p>Kinda Reversed That One
<p>"Last birthday I lived with my family they all went out to eat without me lol" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgg1po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">1836547290</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Could be the best present, just depends" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghhkp7j?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">01kicka**ius10</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Did they sing?" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghixgn5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BtDB</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Breaking Even
<p>"I was buying $5 cd I wanted on my bday, my (now)ex said he hadn't gotten me a gift yet, so he said he'd just buy it for my gift."</p><p>"About a week later I was buying groceries, and a $5 bill was in my change and he is it eyeing it. He tells me 'hey... you never paid me back for the cd I got you for your birthday.' So, I gave him the money for it."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghg7upz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">not-a-real_username</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Perfect Shape for Wrapping
<p>"my dads side of the family used to give my siblings and me entire costco sized packs of corn muffin mix for our birthdays/christmas. always corn muffin, never any other kind."</p><p>"like, we would unwrap the present and it would be 10 boxes of corn muffin mix. i cant offer you more context because there literally isnt any."</p><p>"it was always a mystery. my parents used to fight about it lol"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgc24v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Totally_Kyle0420</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Couldn't Resist the Temptation
<p>"Last year for Christmas I got a half eaten meat basket from my In laws! The Summer sausage was cut in half and wrapped with plastic wrap and the cheese spread had been opened" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgakic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jpm1188</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"In what world does this seem okay or even occur as a thought" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgw7d2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BrutalWarPig</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Just looking out for you, and making sure it wasn't poisoned lol" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgxybk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">not-a-real-username</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Birthday day
<p>When I was a kid my dad gave me the money I got for Christmas on my birthday.</p><p>Christmas, I got money. Birthday, I was allowed to spend it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BlackSonder00/" target="_blank">BlackSonder00</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Not amused
<p>A day at an amusement park where my father explicitly went out of his way to make it excruciatingly clear that we were not there FOR my birthday.</p><p>I was 8. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Imnotfunnybutitried/" target="_blank">Imnotfunnybutitried</a></p>Sportsmanship
<p><br>My uncle gave me a Xbox Live points card for my birthday, when I went to redeem it, it said card not activated. This happened 2 years in a row until my mom told him about it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bob_rob_III/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bob_rob_III</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>My ex's sister-in-law did this to several of us every Christmas and her dad would always feel bad and mail the equivalent in cash. Year 5 or 6 we checked the balance of a card during presents, found it was unactivated and he asked her to leave the house without the gifts she had already opened.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SaddestClown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SaddestClown</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghh0e40/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p>
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Unkindness of strangers
<p><br>The year my husband invited friends over for my birthday so I got to make my own birthday cake, along with dinner for 8 people...and received no gifts</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ljcoon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ljcoon</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Partnership
<p>Everyone forgetting that my birthday happened despite the fact that I'm a twin but everyone remembered my twin's birthday instead of mine.</p><p>Edit to clarify some things: I'm a fraternal twin. My twin brother is taller and looks older than I am. He was a college football player.</p><p>I'm a slightly shorter, skinny person who looks vaguely hispanic while also looking white at the same time despite the fact I'm half Japanese.</p><p>My twin is a more outgoing person than I am. I'm a very quiet/introverted personality. IDFK how my parents forgot. They just did.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cheetodude625/" target="_blank">Cheetodude625</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Year after year
<p><br>I have a few: I was taken to a steakhouse for my birthday one year. They all knew I was a vegetarian, but my family all wanted steak. I had complimentary bread and cole slaw for my birthday that year. </p><p>I planned a big party when I was 16, almost everyone I invited said yes, then no one showed up. </p><p>An ex-bf and I had planned a weekend getaway for my 30th at a fancy hotel. We were supposed to meet there. He never showed (he claimed he'd been called into work but I think he was cheating on me). I ended up getting sick (food poisoning maybe), had to beg the front desk to bring me some bread in the middle of the night. I checked out at dawn to drive myself 2hrs to home.</p><p>I loved celebrating my birthday as a kid, but now I actively ignore it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SarcasticUnderbelly/" target="_blank">SarcasticUnderbelly</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgf11m/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Not cool
<p>I had just worked off the baby weight and was finally down to a Small again. My mom, who loves to take digs at my weight, bought me a bunch of tent-like drape-y clothes in Large.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hananobira/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hananobira</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgc8p9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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What now?
<p><br>My Grandma told me my gift was that she was going to quit smoking, for my 13th bday.</p><p>Had it been true it would have been great but she gave this gift to me many times already.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DrLeePhDMd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DrLeePhDMd</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmqf66/what_is_the_worst_gift_youve_ever_received_for/ghgki2e/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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